FAC in the News: On Ohio “John Registry”
Not everyone supports johns registries, and a variety of groups say prostitution and human trafficking are very different crimes and should not be confused. They say prostitution is consensual and voluntary, and human trafficking is not.
Most people arrested in prostitution operations are lonely men who went to a massage parlor or hired an escort from an online site, says the Florida Action Committee, a nonprofit that “advocates for sex offense laws based on empirical evidence and best practices instead of fear and myth.”
The prostitutes in these exchanges were very willing participants, and a johns registry will make it hard for the people on the list to maintain jobs, which will only compound the shame and difficulty their families are already experiencing, the group said.
Florida’s database for johns, the first of its kind in the nation, will become a bloated, ineffective mess, much like the sex offender registry, the action committee said.
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While I do not support prostitution neither do I support the start of another registry. We have already seen how ineffective a registry can be and the kind of unintended consequences that can result. Every case should be handled by the courts on its own merits and let the court records be all that is maintained. The country needs to get out of the ‘registry business’. We got along well long before the registry came into being.
I live in a small rural area of PA. The local news has been running stories about human trafficking and how prevalent it is in the area. These women who are directors of the local drug and alcohol rehab, and family services are saying it’s an epidemic. Children are being sold into sex slavery by their parents…etc. I don’t know if I believe this or not? I have lived in the area for a long time, and know quite a lot of people. I have never heard anyone complaining about people they know, or loved ones that got caught up in the human trafficking/sex slave trade? I think that it’s a lot of pumped up statistics, and misinformation to get more support for family services, and law enforcement. The local police will now have to hire 2 more detectives to handle all the human trafficking going on around here. Maybe I’m way out of touch?
“These women who are directors of the local drug and alcohol rehab, and family services are saying it’s an epidemic. Children are being sold into sex slavery by their parents…etc”
Question. How much per year do these directors make and who pays them?
Find the answer to that and you answer your own question as to being out of touch or is this hype financially/politically motivated.
HadEnough
I agree you here all this about sex trafficking . Like where dude. There is a lot more of human trafficking in Chinese restaurants they bring young people here as students and force them to work in the restaurants for years to pay them back for bringing them here. If they say anything they get sent back. So they work for nothing. It doesn’t have anything to do with sex so I guess that makes it all right. Is sex the only thing people can think about.
I guess that is the only thing that makes news.
Apparently, a local Mexican restaurant does the same thing.
Your great example is human labor trafficking, something that the news, unfortunately, never picks up. Although it is still a human rights violation, law enforcement (especially in rural areas) rarely prosecutes labor trafficking cases.
While there be a little of what you’re referencing, I seriously doubt that it’s on the level that those women are raising the alarm for. It’s all about raising funds for their cause. They need money for drug and alcohol, but as those concerns don’t draw the attention needed to gain those funds, I truly believe that they are over emphasizing the trafficking deal to gain those funds.
I’m still waiting for the DUI registry. Oh yeah, a good many ‘descent folk are alcoholics. Can’t shame the politicians, court officials, LEO’S. They’re upstanding citizens…
I say go for it, as the more on the registry, the more they will realize just how punitive it really is. After all, it has shown some changes and reevaluating to some regards in certain states.
Looks as if some want to make the criminal system totally a shame based punishment arrangement. That way they can break up families cause more single parent kids cause more homelessness increases welfare recipients, among other collateral damage consequences.
Where a couple could maybe work out there problems in a private environment now everyone will know and be involved in there personal problems, forcing them to end the marriage because of public scorn .
These people that come up with these asinine ideas need to go stick there heads back in the sand where it’s obviously been there whole life.
My advice go help the victims don’t go make more victims.
Dayton government officials just gave human traffickers a great new tool for finding customers! Johns can use their status on the john registry to assure prostitutes that they are regular customers and not police officers. Johns may start carrying around proof of being on the john registry to better negotiate sex contracts. In addition, the registry makes a great mailing list for producers of pornography. With these powerful new tools for pimps, you can count on the next shipment of sex workers from overseas will make their way to Dayton!
It also makes it difficult to catch the sex traffickers because it takes the focus off of them, which is the whole point of these laws. They don’t care that these laws don’t work. They know they don’t work. All they care about is being able to fool people with these laws for as long as they can, until they can come up with the next plan to keep the sex trafficking business protected, because many people make so much money off of that. The most dangerous sex predators and sex traffickers are paying off law enforcement and government officials to keep them protected and/or they are working in these positions, to keep themselves protected and keep everybody fooled.